Confused about Cinema Intros behavior

[questor765 3]

I've been setting up local trailers for my libraries, and about halfway through I started wondering a few things... Mainly, why I didn't experiment at the beginning rather than after spending a couple hours organizing folders... @Happy2Play

If I play a selection while browsing Library 2, will Cinema Intros pull trailers from Library 1?
Will Emby/Cinema Intros recognize my placeholder folder as a source of trailers or ignore it as it has no associated movie entry?
For that matter, did I just set myself up to have numerous empty entries in the browser once the library scan completes?

My folder architecture is set up more or less thusly:

Library 1/
    Movie 1/
        trailers/
            trailer 1-1
            trailer 1-2
    Movie 2/
        trailers/
            trailer 2-1
            trailer 2-2
    Movie 3 (Empty)/
        trailers/
            trailer 3-1
Library 2/
    Movie 4/
        trailers/
            trailer 4-1

 

[Happy2Play 8356]

2 hours ago, questor765 said:

If I play a selection while browsing Library 2, will Cinema Intros pull trailers from Library 1?

Yes as it is not about libraries it is about similar genre/parental rating.

2 hours ago, questor765 said:

my placeholder folder as a source of trailers or ignore it as it has no associated movie entry?

If I understand correctly items that have no movie but trailers are misunderstood.  But I would have to confirm the same applies to subfolder trailers as I uses "name-trailer.ext" and if movie is missing the trailer takes it place.

 

[questor765 3]

Thanks for the quick response

I only had a few trailers with an R rating in my library, so I dropped them in an empty folder/trailers setup and cranked the number of preshow trailers up to 11. As near as I can tell, Cinema Intros doesn't find them. At the very least, I went from at least a few R rated preshows to none

 

[Happy2Play 8356]

Think your best bet is to use Stub files so trailers can actually be used as trailers.  But have not tested this theory.

[questor765 3]

I think you're right. That would get me where I want to end up. Not sure how the rest of the household will like it.

They don't typically mess around with filters, and that will leave them a bunch of entries that won't actually stream.

Maybe if there was a switch that I could hide entries without primary content, kind of like the toggle for grouping entries into collections.

[questor765 3]

It just clicked in my head.

Since you said that it will pull across libraries... I made a "Movie Trailer Library" and dropped the trailers and stub files in there.

Seems so obvious now that I did it.

Still wish I could hide them completely, I expect I'll get some frustrated comments as they still show up in recommendations.

Edited November 18, 2022 by questor765